Usually when it comes to writing this article, I can’t stop a huge smile stretching across my face as I find inventive new ways to link my film car to... well anything really. Maybe I could relate the latest Ferrari to Jess Ennis or the managers at Citroen to King George III.

But this week I’ve got the jitters. I can’t help but be terrified by this huge, steel encrusted machine.

If you have nightmares then I have ‘nightmules’ because the car that has me whimpering is the Ford Bronco, aka “Little Mule”.

It’s destructive, albeit brief, appearance in Romancing the Stone far outshone Kathleen Turner, and poor old Michael Douglas must have been petrified as he sat in the back for take after take (if I were Douglas I’d have fled back to Wall Street...).

Now this car isn’t written about very often and I think I know why – it’s hard to write about a film vehicle while cowering behind the sofa.

But when you do eventually find the courage to look at the Bronco, you discover just how brilliant it is.

Even the less observant of you will have noticed the Bronco is massive. Hummers may think they’re the biggest kids on the block but compared to the Bronco they’re pocket sized.

Sadly, not many of these cars were made. That’s because Vietnam is the world’s fourth largest exporter of rubber and even they only export 531,000 tonnes of rubber a year. That won’t even cover one tyre for the Bronco.

Unfortunately I can’t tell you the 0-60, mainly because it doesn’t have the ability to pass 40mph. Then again I’m guessing this because, for all my research, no website on the planet can give me the car’s top speed.

They’re perfectly happy to witter on about wheel rims and the exact temperature of the air conditioning but none will even dare mention the word ‘pace’.

However, one article said that the 2005 version had a nitrous boost. This means we can deduce it must go at least 10mph.

But the most impressive aspect of this car isn’t how it crosses terrain; it’s how it crosses no terrain. Give this car a ramp and you fly further than in a Boeing 747; indeed, come to think of it, they’re a similar size.

You may be surprised that a car which has a multi-tonne glovebox can score such air time but it’s true. This will still be ascending when the General Lee and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have long since landed.

If 70s stunt god Evel Knievel had tried to jump the Grand Canyon in the Bronco it would not only have clearly the gap but kept soaring all the way to Canada. To be at the wheel of this you need a pilot’s license.

So, indestructible and able to fly across borders, you just know this car must be popular with criminals. And yes, OJ Simpson had one...